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Astronomy current events question: Pluto's hidden ocean?

Astronomy 210L, fall semester 2011Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

Students are assigned to read online articles on current astronomy events, and take a short current events quiz during the first 10 minutes of lab. (This motivates students to show up promptly to lab, as the time cut-off for the quiz is strictly enforced!)

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passes by Pluto in 2015, it is expected to verify whether or not there is a subsurface ocean by looking at Pluto's: (A) surface contours.(B) geyser outflow composition. (C) habitable zone. (D) crater density. (E) atmosphere composition.